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Assistant professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Research: Economics of Climate Change , Environmental Economics, and Economic Growth. Main interests: economics, politics, and aircrafts.
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Our numerical simulations show that our tax-subsidy scheme could provide a welfare gain of around 0.3 percent of national income if politicians have a strong aversion to carbon leakage End of 🧵 12/N
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While the uniform carbon tax ensures a domestic emission reduction target, the other instruments depend on the politicians’ aversion to leakage With no aversion to leakage, only a uniform carbon tax is needed 11/N
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(7) Tax on domestic production of fossil fuels Intuition: reducing domestic production increases net imports, thereby increasing the international price of fossil fuels and thereby decreasing foreign consumption 10/N
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(6) Subsidy to green energy production Intuition: increasing domestic production reduces net imports, thereby reducing the international price of green energy and thereby increasing foreign consumption, resulting in lower fossil fuel use 9/N
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(5) Tax on green energy consumption Intuition: increasing domestic production reduces net imports, thereby reducing the international price of green energy and thereby increasing foreign consumption, resulting in lower fossil fuel use 8/N
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(4) Consumption taxes on all non-energy goods Intuition: reduction in domestic consumption reduces net imports, thereby reducing the international price of green energy and thereby increasing foreign consumption, resulting in lower fossil fuel use 7/N
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(3) Location subsidies to all non-energy sectors Intuition: counteract leakage at the extensive intensive margin by reducing the profit loss from regulation 6/N
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(2) Output subsidies to all non-energy sectors Intuition: counteract leakage at the intensive margin by increasing international competitiveness 5/N
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(1) A uniform carbon tax on households and all non-energy sectors Intuition: equalize marginal abatement costs across sectors and ensures a domestic emissions target 4/N
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Our general equilibrium model prescribes an intuitive tax-subsidy scheme with 7 elements… 3/N
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As a novel feature, we distinguish between leakage at the extensive margin, where domestic firms relocate to foreign countries, and leakage at the intensive margin, where domestic firms lose world market shares 2/N